Example sentences of "[adv] off [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is still touch and go whether Americans will go into the election feeling better off than four years ago or whether they will still be blaming their President for keeping them comparatively poor — that 's to say , better off on average than anybody else in the world but not by as much as before . |
| 2 | Finally the young woman stated , ‘ I 'd be better off on Social Welfare ’ . |
| 3 | Gregory 's father Ralph , who the boy claims is an alcoholic who abused him , did not contest the action and says his son will be better off with foster parents . |
| 4 | It aims to place nearly all the children with permanent family , though workers may decide some are too damaged or too old and would be better off with foster parents . |
| 5 | Roll-A-Joint has been disappointing this season and if he runs will be meeting Cool Ground on a stone worse terms , while Little Polveir is a stone better off with Cool Ground , who , at 10-1 , is the other each-way bet . |
| 6 | Some children may be better off with early cataracts than with aphakic eyes , so early surgery is not always advisable . |
| 7 | If you really want to make light of powder you are better off with specialised hardware . |
| 8 | IF YOU 'RE A BRIGHTON , BLACKPOOL OR BOGNOR BABY , YOU 'RE BETTER OFF WITH BRITISH GAS WATER HEATING . |
| 9 | This is Mike Jardine , one of Scotland 's leading extreme skiers , proving that naked apes are better off with one-piece skisuits . |
| 10 | I think we 're better off with orange squash , just |
| 11 | In the country , the underlying tide of opinion is favourable to Labour : in six months , Gallup 's ‘ fitness to govern ’ test has turned from a negative to a positive while , remarkably , two-thirds of respondents believe they would be better off under Labour . |
| 12 | He said each household would be £114 better off under Labour . |
| 13 | And he claimed eight out of ten families would be better off under Labour . |
| 14 | Huge unemployment resulted and East Europeans began to wonder if they had not been better off in economic isolation — though there was no going back on political reform . |
| 15 | The average pensioner is 32% better off in real terms than the average pensioner in 1979 . |
| 16 | Bill takes a Coke , rips the ring pull cleanly off like painful bandaging and drinks it down in one , like it was a glass of water . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , the government admitted that most people would be around 30 per cent worse off in real terms . |
| 18 | With the election now off until sometime next year media attention continues to be absorbed by party conferences and international activity . |
| 19 | The incumbent is now off in hot pursuit of government funding for the much-enlarged interoperability lab . |
| 20 | The incumbent is now off in hot pursuit of government funding for the much-enlarged interoperability lab , see above . |
| 21 | She receives more complaints , she said , from those who are in work but feel they would be as well off on supplementary benefit ; her aim is to increase the gap between those who are working and the non-working . |
| 22 | As a result of the Government 's policy , the pensioner 's widow is more than £17 per week less well off in real terms than she was when the Government came to power . |
| 23 | The Kiplings owned both places — and Low Birk Hatt in the early days of course — so they were well off by local standards . |